December Dreams Premier Auction: Western Americana, Mining, & Numismatics (December 2021)

Lot of 5 postcards including 3 different real photo cards. RPPC include: bird's-eye of Round Valley, just north of Adin (Adin cancel); Public Sc...

Lot of over 90 vintage postcards from the San Gabriel Valley town of Alhambra. Street scenes, residences, schools, churches. One of the residences is

A great grouping of thirty postcards of Altadena, California. There is a mixture of real photos and color cards. Images included are of various reside

Lot of 40+. Includes 31 RPPC, most white border. Views of Modoc High School, Hotel Modoc, court house, street scenes, lumber mill, NCO depot, and a fe

Lot of 3 postcards, two choice real photo and one chrome. Two RPPC include: one street view (mailed in 1912) and one birds-eye view mailed in 1911. Bo

Two nice real photos of Anderson. The first shows, "Rebekah Float, Anderson Floral Carnival, 1909". The second is a later date Eastman Pho...

Lot of 40 postcards. Includes 23 RPPC (mostly white border). Real photo views of Mark Twain's cabin, multiple street views, and other misc. Othe...

Lot of 12. Includes 3 white border RPPCs: two bird's-eye views and one of Main Street. Other printed cards (all divided back) include 5 bird'...

Lot of 9 postcards. Includes 6 real photo postcards. RPPC views of: The Oaks; Ryhners Villa; Pinewood; and others. Additional cards include two unused

Lot of 12 postcards, including 11 real photo. RPPC include 4 white border. Views of the Southern Pacific Depot, school house, Catholic church, IOOF ha

Forty nine postcards of Arcadia, California including hotels, homes and businesses in Arcadia. Many are color postcards but there are some choice real

Three cards are by Artvue and look to be earlier date (1930's) as one is stamped with the date 1938. The others look to be later date reproducti...

Lot of 49. Great collection! Includes 28 RPPC. Other cards are a mix of early printed cards (divided back) and modern cards. One undivided back. Real

Lot of 17 pieces for two famous hotels in Auburn. Includes 15 postcards, one Freeman's Hotel pictorial advertising cover, and an 1897 Freeman...

Lot of 19 cards. Miscellaneous group includes: pictorial Placer County Private Mailing Card; multiple Greetings and Christmas cards; 1899 card with ta

Lot of 32. Includes 27 RPPC. Eleven are white border. A whole variety of birds-eye views. The other 5 early printed cards include two undivided back.

Lot of almost 60 postcards of Auburn featuring buildings and misc. views. Includes 36 RPPC (8 white border). Choice views include a destroyed Annex Ho

Lot of 12 postcards, 9 real photo, showing street scenes and a few bird's-views of Auburn. Views include: choice photo card showing early auto s...

Lot of 8 East Auburn postcards including six real photo cards. RPPC views: four bird's-eye, 3 different (incl. 1905 mailed); and duplicate cards...

A nice grouping of twenty-three postcards of Azusa, California. The majority are real photo cards with five being in color. Six Rainbow Angling Club p

Rare group of photo postcards of Cold Brook Camp in the San Gabriel Mountains above Los Angeles area. Some of these cards date to 1911. Most are posta

Lot of 25. Most are real photo. A nice Benbow collection with some duplicates. Views include: Hotel Benbow interior and exteriors; Benbow Bridge; Eel

Lot of 40. Includes 18 RPPC, 21 early printed (divided back), and 1 leather postcard (1907 Christmas). Views of school houses, churches, Carnegie Libr

Lot of 23. Plenty of RPCs. All Feather River Inn. Camp along the boardwalk, inside view, gold course, outside view, etc. One very nice hand colored wi

Extremely Rare! For Gold Lake Beach Camp. This is completely gone now! Elevation 6,000 feet. The Beauty Spot of the High Sierra. $20 to $22.50 a week

Four postcards: Del Norte Chalet, Teacher River Camp, Riverside Hotel, Mohawk Tavern. Three Advertising promo Cards: Mohawk Tavern, Feather River Park

Lot of 35. 20 RPCs. Great RPC of horses traveling on horseshoes. Includes bridges, fishing, las Plumas Power Station, Big Bar, CWP Speedwell Trucks, w

Rare RPPC showing people watching a building engulfed in flames. Photo by Seely Bros., Arcata, Cal. Labelled "Blue Lake Fire Dec. 5th 1911.&quo...

Lot of 6. 1) Four postcards. All Frasher. All RPCs: a) View of town and mines. "The Historic Old Mining Town of Bodie, Mono County, Calif."...

Lot of 50. A great collection with early historical views of the springs and hotel. Includes 16 real photo postcards with a few shot in the studio at

Lot of 16 postcards of the baths at the historic Boyes Hot Springs resort in Sonoma County. Includes 10 real photo postcards, one of which has been pa

Lot of 6 postcards of carnivals and gatherings at the historic Sonoma County resort. Includes 2 real photo and 4 printed photo cards. RPPCs include: H

Lot of 25 postcards of Boyes, CA and the Sonoma Mission Inn (the later hotel at Boyes Hot Springs). Includes 20 real photo postcards: three town views

Lot of 19. Includes 6 RPPC: Pioneer's Cabin, General Sherman Tree, and Big Trees Hotel. Other cards are printed cards (divided back) with views ...

A couple of these postcards are real photo cards and three are amber views. The rest are color cards. These are all rare. How often do you come across

Thirty-nine postcards prominently feature the Calistoga Old Mill in Napa County, California. Contains four nice real photo cards of the Old Bale Mill

Thirty-nine vintage postcards of the Calistoga Petrified Wood Forest near Calistoga, California. Includes ten postcards of Old Faithful Geyser of Cali

Twenty-two postcards of Calistoga Hot Springs in Calistoga, California. Contains entrance photo postcards with a sign stating "Calistoga Hot Sp...

Fifteen street scenes and five birds-eye view postcards in Calistoga. Most of the street scenes are of different views and angles on Lincoln Avenue. A

Nice collection of birds-eye views of Calistoga. Includes a few real photo cards. Some early date cards from 1907 and 1908. One shows a geyser and a c

A nice grouping of twenty Camp Baldy postcards. Many real photo images of the beautiful forested area, the lake, and falls. A real photo card of The H

Lot of 38. Twenty-six are blue/green tinted, mostly published Polychrome Co. in SF. Also 12 amber tone cards from Polychrome. Mostly used c.1908-13. V

Lot of 20 historic chromo litho postcards of Camp Meeker, a historic logging and tourism community in Sonoma County. Most are colorized. Includes view

Lot of 20 real photo postcards of this historic location in the redwoods of Sonoma County. Views include: ox team on trail; Lych Gate; chapel at St. D

Lot of 20 amber postcards of Camp Meeker in Sonoma County. FH believes the amber postcard series to be a creation of master postcard publisher Ed. Mit

Lot of eight Private Mailing Cards and a store card of The Catalina Canvas City. Two postmarked: 1904, 1905. Date: Country (if not USA): State:

Lot of ~75 postcards. Includes 40 RPPC. RPPC include: several birds-eye view, as well as shots of the railroad station, Elim Grove Hotel, Log Cabin Re

Lot of 14 real photo postcards with a "frame" design around the photo. Most identify the photographer as Pelton. Views of: Austin Creek, H...

Lot of 5 different real photo postcards. 1) Three cards by Matthews: residence of LN Pabst, elk mount, and Surprise Valley sagebrush. All mailed, 1909

Lot of 16. Premier piece is close-up of a Cornforth truck parked in front of Cornforth Grocery at Broadway and 2nd street. Employees seem to be enjoyi

Thirteen postcards of Bidwell Mansion in Chico, California. Most are postmarked between 1909 and 1918. Two or three are real photo cards. Bidwell Mans

Twenty-one early Chico, California postcards. Street scenes of Broadway, Main, and a few others in Chico. Contains early real photo postcards, includi

Fifteen postcards of churches and public buildings in Chico, California. Includes two cards published by Edward H. Mitchell, one of First Methodist Ep

About 60 cards. Nearly all c1907 to 1910. Buildings, city view, nature, advertising, Bidwell Manion (Bidwell Bartleson 1st wagon crossing from the sta

Forty-nine vintage postcards of Chico, California. Includes cards of the "Hooker Oak" Tree that stands 101 feet high and is 1000 years old...

Twelve vintage Chico, California hotel postcards. Includes the Park Hotel and Hotel Oaks. Includes two early cards postmarked 1907, one of Odd Fellows

Twenty-six vintage postcards of schools in Chico, California. Contains three cards published by Edward H. Mitchell, San Francisco, California. Include

Lot of 10. Several RPCs. Re-visit a residential street, Carnegie Library, Broadway, and Main Street. Half are postmarked 1908 to 1914! Date: Countr

Lot of ten. One rare postcard inside a postcard! Post card of Sir Joseph Hooker Oak and inside is mini-postcard of a street scene of Hazel street. Fab

Nine choice postcards of this, the largest match manufacturing company in the United States for decades. Five are postmarked 1907 to 1914. Date: Co

Lot of over 45 postcards from the Richardson Springs resort, outside the city of Chico. Postmarks from 1906 through the 1950s. Bird's eye views,...

Thirty seven postcards of the Richardson Mineral Springs area near Chico, Butte County. About half are early view real photo postcards that feature th

Lot of 2. 1) Very rare real photo postcard of the Hotel Cisco in winter. Mailed 1919 (Cisco postmark). Nice view of the hotel beneath train tracks. No

Nice real photo postcards by Patterson of Clear Lake. Lake views, cabins, fish pictures and more. All in very good condition. Date: Country (if no

About 3/4 of these are real photo cards depicting Clear Lake in California. The oddfellows hall, the Methodist Church, the public school and views on

Twelve Clear Lake area remote location postcards. Also including two small 1913 cards, one showing a map of the counties surrounding Clear Lake, and t

Forty-nine general scenic shots postcards grouping one of two of Clear Lake, Lake County, California. Includes sun rise and sunset on Clear Lake real

Fifty-five general scenic shots of Clear Lake, Lake County, California. This is the second group. Includes several scenic views around Clear Lake, as

Thirty-five Clear Lake, Lake County, California postcards. Historical shots from around the lake. Contains several sailboat scenes. Several nice real

A large mixture of sixty-three postcards featuring various Clear Lake Resorts in Lake County, California. Various cottages and resorts, including Soda

Lot of 25 postcards of Cloverdale buildings. Includes 8 real photo postcards. Views include: Clover Inn; United States Hotel; Cloverdale Grade School;

Lot of 36 postcards from multiple years of this Cloverdale, Sonoma County festival. Approximate counts of cards from fairs in: 1906 (1), 1907 (1), 190

Lot of 5 different early real photo postcards of Cloverdale by the same photographer (not listed). Two show damaged structures (mailed 1909) from a de

Lot of 16 postcards of the rural surroundings of Cloverdale. Includes 6 RPPC. Views of : trout stream, bird's-eye, Redwood Highway, Russian Rive...

Lot of 9, including 4 RPPC. Real photo cards all show cars on the street (c.1930s-40s). None mailed. The other cards all show West Street; three are m

Lot of 3 very early real photo postcards of street scenes in Cloverdale showing wagons (and no cars present). One mailed in 1907, one of West St. mail

Lot of 22. Includes 13 real photo postcards. One undivided back. Many views of people (and cars) in front of the resort. Other shots of recreation inc

Lot of 37. Includes: 17 real photo postcards; 15 early printed cards; and 5 modern cards. Some duplication. Views include: multiple bird's-eye; ...

Lot of 4 rare postcards, 3 RPPC. 1) Real photo mailed in 1906 showing the Gillen Hotel. 2) Real photo birds-eye, 1909, with buildings identified on th

Lot of 10: 9 real photo postcards and one small B&W photo. All are Colfax railroad related. Six of the cards show the Southern Pacific Depot at ...

Lot of 50+. Includes over 40 real photo postcards, mostly white border. Two early printed cards. Six modern cards. Views of St. Anne's Church; M...

Lot of ~40 postcards of buildings in Colusa. Includes 12 RPPC (4 Pacific Novelty Co., 8 white border) . Other cards include 6 undivided back, and 22 e

Lot of 7 postcards depicting scenes on the Sacramento River at Colusa. Includes two RPPCs and 5 early printed cards, one undivided back. Three mailed,

Lot of 10 postcards, including 7 RPPCs. Photo cards: 4 Pacific Novelty Co. (court house and 5th street); and 3 white border (Monte Vista Summer House,

Lot of 17, incl. 14 RPPC (8 white border). RPPC include: early days views, birds-eye, Odd Fellow Lodge, gold mine ruins, and locomotive Whistling Bill

This grouping of forty-three Covina, California postcards includes a nice variety of cards. Includes many city streets and home views in both real pho

Great group of 38 real photo postcards of Crescent City, California by Patterson. Includes a great street scene with model-T era cars, a rock quarry,

Lot of ~45 postcards. Includes 12 RPPC. RPPC views include several of the university, plus two of the railroad depot. Also a c.1870s postal card with

Lot of 16. Includes 12 RPPC and 4 printed cards. Best RPPC is 1908 street scene. Other photo views are: Capitol Hotel, Main St., schoolhouse, dairy, a

Lot of 27. 24 RPCs. Historic and beautiful driver from Oroville to Many of Grizzly Dome Tunnel. Polga railroad bridges, Bidwell Bar Bridge, dirt road

Lot of 19. Many interesting bridge scenes, trains poking their head out of tight tunnels, windy road, trestles and our favorite ñ working trai

Lot of 7 "Bidwell" real photo postcards. 1) Fort Bidwell. Four RPPC (3 white border). Different views of Main St. Two mailed, 1911 and 191...

Thirty-nine various Fort Bragg, California postcards. Located along the Mendocino Coast. Grouping contains several scenic views. Includes two neat rea

Lot of 24 early real photo postcards of Fort Ross, with many duplicates. Date: Country (if not USA): State: California City: Fort Ross Provena

Lot of over 30 postcards of Fort Ross, a California state park on the Sonoma Coast, founded by the Russians in 1812. Several RPCs from the late 1800s

Lot of 19 newer (1930s-40s) black and white real photo postcards of Fort Ross, the Sonoma County state park founded by the Russians in 1812. Date:

Lot of over 40 black and white real photo postcards of Fort Ross, California the Russian fort established in 1812. Many duplicates, dated from 1901 th

Lot of eleven early real photo postcards of Fort Ross, the Sonoma state park founded by the Russians in 1912. All unwritten. Date: Country (if not

Thirty-one vintage Glen Ellen, California postcards. Known for Jack London's famous Castle in the "Valley of the Moon." Cards feature ...

Lot of over 60 vintage postcards from Casa Verdugo in Glendale California. Located on the Pacific Electric train line, built in 1907, served as a rest